Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved.

Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

Blasphemy is a victimless crime.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.

We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We come back laden from out quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

Still believe that ever round you Spirits float who watch and wait; Nor forget the twain who found you Sleeping nigh the Golden Gate.

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

It is the growling man who lives a dog's life.

Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.

Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will go back.

Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.

To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.